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Pace, Ugo; Zappulla, Carla – Journal of Family Issues, 2013
This study examined the relationship of emotional detachment from parents, parental support, and problem behaviors and focused on the unique and common contribution that detachment and parental support made to internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems. A total of 461 young adolescents, 13 to 14 years old ("M" = 13.4;…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Behavior Problems, Parent Role, Foreign Countries
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Merrifield, Kami A.; Gamble, Wendy C. – Journal of Family Issues, 2013
This study examined associations among marital quality, coparenting, and parenting self-efficacy in parents of young children. Of special interest were possible spillover and stress-buffering effects of the marital and coparenting relationships. The authors sampled 175 married and cohabiting couples. Participants were recruited via an online…
Descriptors: Marital Satisfaction, Child Rearing, Stress Variables, Stress Management
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Dotterer, Aryn M.; Hoffman, Lesa; Crouter, Ann C.; McHale, Susan M. – Journal of Family Issues, 2008
We examined reciprocal associations between parent-adolescent conflict and academic achievement over a 2-year period. Participants were mothers, fathers, and adolescents from predominantly White, working and middle class families (N = 168). After accounting for previous academic achievement, parent-adolescent conflict predicted relative declines…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Conflict, Academic Achievement, Parents
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Pittman, Laura D.; Boswell, Michelle K. – Journal of Family Issues, 2008
This article compares characteristics of families, mothers, and children on the basis of whether their household is multigenerational, using data from Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study, which samples low-income culturally diverse families. Few differences were found between multigenerational and nonmultigenerational households,…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Mothers, Family Income, Low Income Groups
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Bronte-Tinkew, Jacinta; Moore, Kristin A.; Carrano, Jennifer – Journal of Family Issues, 2006
The father-child relationship and father's parenting style are examined as predictors of first delinquency and substance use, using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1997, Rounds 1 to 3 (N = 5,345), among adolescents in intact families. Discrete time logistic regressions indicate that a more positive father-child relationship…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Adolescents, Parenting Styles, Fathers
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Knoester, Chris; Eggebeen, David J. – Journal of Family Issues, 2006
This study uses data (N = 3,088) from the first two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households to explore the effects of the transition to fatherhood and the addition of subsequent children on men's psychological and physical health, contacts with extended family, social interactions, and work behaviors. The results suggest that new…
Descriptors: Well Being, National Surveys, Parent Role, Fathers